About us – TrustChain

About Trustchain

The digital era and existence of the internet is revolutionizing our health, our wellbeing, our social life, our education, our information. Spirit of the first-generation Internet based on individual freedom and material progress. Nowadays, essential ethical and democratic principles that should underline this technology are at stake. The design choices of the past based on a mix of centralized networked and device-based technologies, makes today’s Internet obsolete when it comes to empowering all citizens to act in/for the green and digital transitions, as well as to create a more resilient, inclusive and democratic society, addressing inequalities and human rights, prepared and responsive to threats and disasters.

Under the European Commission Next Generation Internet initiative, TrustChain is launched in January 2023. TrustChain aims to create a portfolio of Next Generation Internet protocols and an ecosystem of decentralized software solutions that reach the highest standards of humanity such as those chartered by the United Nations including the respect of human rights, ethics, sustainability, energy efficiency, our care for the environment and our respect for the World’s cultural history. TrustChain will tackle several challenges pertaining to trustworthy and reliable digital identity, to resilient, secure and reliable data pathways, to economics and trading of data, to energy efficiency for data storage, transport and sharing, to seamless services and data flows. A new trustworthy data governance and sharing model will be developed in line with the European regulatory framework and taking into account European values while ensuring Trusted Data Ecosystems.

Through its five Open Calls, TrustChain will support top Internet innovators (academies and high-tech companies) with a total amount of 8,8 M€ distributed with focus on topics of the (1) Decentralized digital identity, (2) the User privacy and data governance, (3) Economics and democracy, and (4) Multi chains support for NGI protocols, and (5) Green scalable and sustainable DLTs.

Overall the purpose of the 5 open calls is to:

Attract and engage as much Blockchain & DLTs technology researchers, startups and SMEs;
Leverage the development of new research fields and innovative products/ service applications;
Build upon existing tools;
Implement and feedback on Project new business models;
Boost the innovative research topics, experiments and applications, broadening the portfolio of the TrustChain offers;
Increase outreach towards new regions and enhance the TrustChain concept footprint towards exploitation;
Ensure that potential market barriers are removed through validated demonstrations;

In the 9 months long implementation timeframe for each Open Call, the innovators will receive funding and support in terms of mentoring and coaching as well as adequate implementation of the human-centric approach. More specifically, the first two months will be dedicated to the users requirements with the involvement of end users and innovators whereas the last 2 months will be dedicated to testing and validation by early adopters. All the innovators will spread the word on the latest TrustChain advances in top events as well as become part of a wider ecosystem of experts, investors and innovators alike.

TrustChain Consortium

The consortium is formed by eight organisations from 7 different European countries
(Luxembourg, Republic of Ireland, Slovakia, Greece, Spain, Belgium and United Kingdom),
strategically selected due to their expertise.

European Dynamics is a leading European software vendor and information & ICT services provider, operating internationally. European Dynamics designs, develops, supports and promotes software ICT applications using open architectures and integrated, state-of-art technology to governments, public organizations and private enterprises in more than 45 countries.

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F6S is a European based entity that has become the largest Startup/SME community globally with over 1.5 million Startups/SMEs and 4.0 million entrepreneurs. F6S delivers more than €2 billions every year to Startups and SMEs with leading CRM for deal flow, corporate challenges, structured programs, startup services, corporate partnering, recruiting, government grants and free startup resources.

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The Faculty of Computer and Information Science of Ljubljana focuses on scientific research in the field of computer and information sciences with a special interest on web ontologies and semantics, data acquisition, semantic grid/cloud/fog technologies, trust and blockchain, IoT, big data, real-time data management, large networks analysis, data streams, information extraction, etc.

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Athens University of Economics and Business has a multidisciplinary scientific expertise and specializes in the combination between technology and economics. It investigates, develops, and evaluates economic models and business plans, economic and other incentive-based mechanisms for trust management, allocation, network management and trading, cloud, CDN and IoT services, sharing/on-demand economies resources and cryptocurrencies.

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CIB is a non-profit organisation that works on identification and research of society needs on ICT knowledge capacity building, primarily vulnerable groups within the local communities. They train and educate in Digital Competences for a more participatory and inclusive society. To do so, the main means the Foundation has are volunteers - more than 1.800 cybervolunteers - working hand by hand with about 1.200 grassroots organisations across Spain, also with Municipalities, Academia, Grassroots organizations, NGOs, Public institutions and Private Sector at a national scope. They promote the central role of citizens through their active participation in Digital Transition processes, as to achieve inclusive Digital Transformation as a durable, sustainable change.

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ALA is a non-profit association dedicated to the creation and promotion of blockchain networks as a Common Good, following the Public-Permissioned model, which can be used in the real economy, far from speculation and that are open, inclusive, fair and at the same time efficient, green and compliant with all the applicable regulations, especially when it has to do with citizens personal data (GDPR), ans supporting real-world identities via a privacy-preserving Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) system, always aligned with the European strategy of EBSI and European Identity Digital Wallet (EUID).

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Timelex is a boutique law firm, specialised in information and technology law in the broadest sense, including privacy protection, data and information management, e-business, intellectual property and telecommunications. Its activities cover all legal issues encountered in the creation, management and exploitation of information and technology, in all of its diverse forms. Timelex team is specifically known for its European policy studies in a variety of subjects, including data protection, electronic signatures, electronic identity management, e-business and e-government, in which they can rely on an extensive network of IT law experts covering all European countries.

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ICS is a leading higher education institution in London with over 18,000 students. The School of Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science has expertise in the area of cyber security, data science, AI and autonomous systems. Domain expertise in blockchain, identity management, privacy preserving technologies, cryptography and digital finance.

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